You've probably noticed that robots aresuddenly everywhere.

From Amazon's warehouses to Google's self-driving cars to IBM's Watson, robots of all shapes and sizes are showing up with increasing frequency in our daily lives.

But "RoboPsych" is bigger than humanoid robots.

RoboPsych is about the psychological reactions “normal” people are having, and will be having, as real time intelligent objects become a pervasive part of our lives.

This is not a Luddite, turn it off for Pete's sake point of view.

RoboPsych is about learning how people are going to function optimally in this new environment.

That means we'll be exploring everything from soldiers mourning robot colleagues who've fallen in combat to that funny feeling you get when an algorithm correctly predicts what movie your want to watch on Netflix. Or, when an ad for something you absently-mindedly searched for yesterday shows up on your Facebook Newsfeed.

This range of psychological reactions is both an extension of the technological attitude we've been developing over the last century and a phase change brought on by the slew of anthropomorphized technological presences that are now becoming so commonplace.